There is a person who works and earns his own white-collar salary, and his life is not bad. Wang Wenwu's current smuggling business is much lower-key than before. It is not that he does not deal with the Japanese. After all, the Japanese have so many good things in their hands that cannot be exchanged for money.

Put it in your pocket, why bother with so much effort!

After all, the Japanese control some things strictly. They can only get one or two boxes in small batches. If you want to get it in large quantities, you can only buy it from the Japanese. Wang Wenwu just won't go as deep as before.

Of course, it’s not like no one wants to find out. Where did these things end up? But Wang Wenwu would always throw out some clues decisively to interrupt the opponent.

It's just that the cost for Wang Wenwu will be higher. Wang Wenwu can only increase the price implicitly and earn a few more oceans.

In this way, the time has come to the 33rd year of the Republic of China. The Japanese, who had been making great progress in the Pacific battlefield, now only had victory in the newspapers.

The Mariana Islands, including Saipan and Guam, are located east of the Ryukyus, Taiwan and the Philippines, south of the Iwo Jima Islands, and north of the Caroline Islands. They are blocking Japan's shipping lanes through Southeast Asia, its main strategic asset.

.Therefore, Japan has long regarded the Mariana Islands as the hub of the "absolute defense circle" and the "breakwater in the Pacific."

The Americans came well prepared and were bound to win, and the Japanese had to devote all their land and naval elites to fight for it. The Japanese Navy's First Mobile Fleet entered the waters west of Saipan, trying to use the U.S. fleet to seize the island with all its strength and severely damage it.

Aircraft carrier battle group.

Objectively speaking, the Japanese Navy's strategic plan is quite feasible on paper. If the "military fortune" prospers, it may even replicate the glory of the US military in the "Battle of Midway": first, use the advantages of the dense airports on the islands around Saipan to offset the opponent's

With the superiority in the number of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, it then used the elite carrier-based aircraft equipped with the mobile fleet to launch a surprise attack on the US fleet, severely damaging the opponent's aircraft carrier formation.

But as the saying goes, "The ideal is full, but the reality is skinny." On the one hand, under the sweep of the US carrier-based aviation, the Japanese Navy's base air force originally assigned to Mariana quickly lost its combat effectiveness; on the other hand, the consumption of years of war

, also made the aviation of the Japanese Navy's mobile fleet no longer as brave as it was in the Coral Sea and Midway. On the contrary, the US military has made great progress in fighter formation and fleet air defense.

Under the circumstances, the Battle of Mariana, the last head-on confrontation between Japan and the United States in terms of aircraft carrier battle groups, became a one-way massacre like a "turkey hunt" on the part of the United States. As the Japanese Navy first

After the mobile fleet lost three large aircraft carriers and 335 fighter planes of various types failed to return, the Japanese Army garrison forces in Saipan and other places could not escape the fate of destruction.

But after Japan's "absolute defense circle" was broken, the Japanese urgently needed a victory to boost their domestic confidence in fighting. However, in the face of such dismal results, the Japanese Navy added water to its record in order to evade responsibility.

In the report to the Tokyo base camp, he openly declared: "Sinked 19 US aircraft carriers, sunk and damaged dozens of other warships, and shot down more than 500 enemy aircraft..." After this news appeared in Tokyo, it immediately caused an uproar.

The "Asahi Shimbun" and other media praised this "big victory", and the emperor even issued a special commendation to comfort the officers and soldiers. The Japanese Prime Minister even made a public speech: "In the air battle over Taiwan, the hurricane force turned the tide, and victory is in sight!" Tokyo, Taipei, BJ

When major cities were decorated with lights and colorful decorations, they were intoxicated with this illusory "victory" and couldn't extricate themselves.

In fact, Japan has already shown a failing image, and the war has become unsustainable. Due to the cutoff of sea transportation lines, Japan cannot obtain raw materials from overseas, and most factories have reduced production or even shut down due to shortages of raw materials.

The Japanese themselves conducted a large-scale secret investigation into Japan's domestic economic situation. The results of the investigation showed that the Japanese economy was on the verge of collapse: military and civilian enterprises continued to reduce production, and the monthly steel output was less than 100,000 tons. Arms production dropped by 50%, and the total number of ships

The tonnage is less than 1 million, and only 400,000 tons of oil reserves are left.

In order to make steel, the Japanese demolished the fences and manhole covers in the parks, and requisitioned the door panels of ordinary people's homes to build airplanes. Due to the shortage of bombs, the Japanese even used stones instead and threw stones from the airplanes.

It can be seen how far Japanese industry had declined at that time.

What's more serious is that Japan not only does not have enough industrial production capacity, but also lacks fuel. The Japanese even have to add soybean oil to their warships.

During the Battle of Okinawa, in order to support Okinawa, Japan pulled out the Yamato from the bottom of the pressure tank. However, due to no fuel, the Yamato battleship could not set sail again. A round trip of the Yamato required at least 8,000 tons of fuel. In order to get the Yamato started

, the Japanese military ministry called on the Japanese people to donate soybean oil at home to refine fuel for the Yamato.

In this way, Japan collected enough fuel for the one-way trip to Okinawa, but it was unclear how it would get back. Of course, the Yamato also knew that it would not be able to come back. It went to Okinawa just to boost the morale of the demoralized Japanese.

The Japanese do not have enough weapons, nor do they have enough fuel. The only thing they have is the spirit of not being afraid of death. But no matter how fearless the Japanese are, they cannot stop machine guns and artillery.

In fact, Japan does not even have the ability to block machine guns and artillery, because the Japanese can't even eat. Now Japan's domestic economy is on the verge of collapse, and its citizens have been struggling on the verge of death. Due to the long-term strategic bombing by the US military, Japan's nine-story

Factory facilities were bombed, and food and drinking water were problems. At that time, urban residents in Japan only had 300 grams of food rations per day, and rural residents did not even have 300 grams of food.

Due to hunger, all the food scraps in the garbage bins beside the roads in Japan were robbed. Since many houses were destroyed during the war, the Japanese could only live in underground passages and live with rats. In Japan, there are daily

A large number of people died of hunger and disease.

Compared with the Japanese who are living miserable lives at home, the garrison stationed in China is at least living a much easier life. Although the logistics sent from the headquarters have long been gone.

What the troops stationed in various places eat depends entirely on what is grown nearby. The troops stationed in various places not only have to find ways to solve their own food and drink problems, but also try their best to collect more food and transport it back to the country.
Chapter completed!